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dorayme said:I have never heard anyone wanting a website actually talk about
IE5 or the blind or the mouseless or the mouse-shys or PDA's or
mobile phones without leading questions by me...
Me neither - they ask for "accessibility", and I recall one client
wanting the site to look good in IE5, cause that happened to be the
only browser they were using :\
I have made
websites for people in organizations who have IT depts that have
written specifications recommending or requiring accessibility
criteria, true, but these may as well be double-dutch - sorry Els
- to the particular hirer.
I didn't say they *understand* accessibility ;-)
They have just heard the accessibility buzz word, and want me to build
it like that. It's just a starting point though, I still have to
explain about tiny fonts, skip links, and the rest of it.
And from the look of almost every
other page at these organizations, no one seems to take a lot of
notice of these standards however generally competent and
generally useful these "non-assessible" pages are.
But I work for people who appreciate these standards, who can be
led to see they are good things. Just my experience I guess... So
I was thinking that when most people hire people to make a
website, it would be very few indeed who talked the talk.
Yup - few understand what it is, but the word itself is spreading